Year: 2015

James has a new post called http://prog21.dadgum.com/206.html in which he wonders if lots of the idioms like const, and static or sealed classes are them to allow developers to protect themselves from themselves. I would have commented on his blog, but he doesn’t like comments, which is a completely sane stance to have, heck the only comments I get here are spam.

So I had always thought those idioms where there to allow complier optimizations because there was extra information that was not tracked on older compilers, or to make the code cleaner.

const variables are to a avoid macro’s “true evil” and to keep the type information.
static allowed to keep the symbol table size down
sealed allowed real optimization, as functions will never to replaced.

And these were needed, so the new language could perform “better” at some key benchmark used to once again prove that poor “real world” problems in assembly, C are faster than in new language X. Thus all problems should use C/asm.